Barbie and Liberalism

The movie has now made half a billion dollars in the United States and is on its way to making near-Star Wars money. John Avlon: It's thrown a lot of liberals for a loop because on the one hand, it is everything that they say about late stage capitalism. The doll, as you say, is made by, you know, slave labor in China.Avlon: On the other hand, this movie is a feminist folktale that that assumes the existence of a patriarchy running the earth but then imposes the patriarchy back on Barbie land.